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Recent Examples of boxy
The top was a strapless, boxy, heavily textured bodice constructed from three-dimensional floral embellishments.
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Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 4 May 2026
On the face of it, JMGO's latest lifestyle projector might look like just another boxy smart entertainment hub.
—Paul Ridden
may 01, New Atlas, 1 May 2026
Founded in 2014, Bollinger’s original plan was to bring a series of retro-inspired, off-road-ready trucks and SUVs—think boxy mashups of the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon and Ford Broncos—to the market.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Apr. 2026
Manufacturers have settled on a small, boxy design with front and rear displays and a wide-angle lens as the de facto standard for the category.
—Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
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Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 4 May 2026
On the face of it, JMGO's latest lifestyle projector might look like just another boxy smart entertainment hub.
—Paul Ridden
may 01, New Atlas, 1 May 2026
Founded in 2014, Bollinger’s original plan was to bring a series of retro-inspired, off-road-ready trucks and SUVs—think boxy mashups of the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon and Ford Broncos—to the market.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Apr. 2026
Manufacturers have settled on a small, boxy design with front and rear displays and a wide-angle lens as the de facto standard for the category.
—Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boxy
Adjective
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Two computer monitors displayed a riot of overlapping windows, including an old, blocky software program called P-COM, which offered thirty-five types of commands.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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The biggest transformation occurs in the blocky, brutalist Crucible Theatre, which shifts from staging Shakespeare and Harold Pinter to become the Theatre of Dreams — snooker’s holiest of holy sites, where 32 leading players from across the world compete to be be named the best of the best.—
Andrew Dickson,
Bloomberg,
2 May 2026
Adjective
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China plans to initially divert some four billion cubic meters of water from the Yangtze to the Yellow River annually in the first phase of part of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project—but that’s less water than what’s being captured by the Yangtze, the study authors warn.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
12 May 2026
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During its lifetime, Habitat has produced mostly natural gas — more than 232 million cubic feet — and a relatively meager showing of crude oil, less than 250,000 barrels, according to federal records.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
Adjective
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Luca Chiaravalle: The Smallest Muse Luca Chiaravalle makes miniature art galleries, the rectangular and cubical scenes housing tiny people contemplating art.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
28 Feb. 2026
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Even the workpiece itself was cubical.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Boxy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boxy. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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